What is Photopolis?
Photopolis is a new way to experience your photo collection. Photopolis extracts the date you took your photo. Then it assembles the photos that were taken in a week as a "house". Out of 4 houses a months is created and so on. The result is a checker-board arrengement of houses in a city. The straight streets represent years, the cross streets months. Because of this arrangement you can for example view your Christmas photos of all the years by walking along the "December" street. Screenshot
A cross-hair is displayed on the screen. It allows you to "enter" a house. A slideshow with the photos of the selected week is started. Photopolis comes with 2 navigation modes. A run mode and a jetpack mode.
Photopolis is open-source. Download the source code. For ideas for future versions of Photopolis check out the Development section. If you want to know more about the original Photopolis-project and the original developers check out "About". Tell us about your feature requests. Click here for general feedback.
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System requirements
Windows
- Windows XP
- Java 1.5 or newer
- A Pentium III or better
- A dedicated graphics card with a lot of memory (128 MB recommended).
- 100 MB of hard-drive space is needed for each 1000 photos of your photo library
Mac OS X
- Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard (Java 1.5 is already included)
- Or Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger with the Java 1.5 update (download for PCC, download for Intel)
- A Mac with a G3, G4, G5, Intel Core processor or better
Note: Photopolis was only tested on Intel-based Macs.
- A dedicated graphics card with a lot of memory (128 MB recommended).
Note: Photopolis will run on Intel Macs with Intel Integrated Graphics, however Photopolis will run very slowly with more than 400 photos.
- 100 MB of hard-drive space is needed for each 1000 photos of your photo library.
Install
Windows
Unzip Photopolis.zip and start Photopolis.jar, NOT Photopolis.exe.
Mac OS X
Mount the Photopolis image and launch the Installer.
Uninstall
Windows
Simply delete the Photopolis directory.
Mac OS X
Simply move the Photopolis application to the Trash and delete the folder "Your user name"/Library/Application Support/Photopolis. Please be extremely attentive not to trash anything else in Application Support.
